Software Update: Zentyal Server 6.0

Zentyal Server is a Linux based server targeting small office environments. It offers a ready-made environment for Windows clients by using, among others, openvpn, samba, sogo, dns and a ca. For more information, please refer to this page† The development team has already provided the development edition available under the gpl with a new release a few days ago, with 6.0 as the version number. The abbreviated announcement looks like this:

ZENTYAL SERVER 6.0, MAJOR NEW VERSION RELEASE NOW AVAILABLE

Zentyal Development Team today announced Zentyal Server 6.0, a major new version release of the Zentyal Linux Server. This new version of Zentyal Server continues offering an easy-to-use Linux server with all the network services required in corporate environments and most importantly, native Microsoft Active Directory interoperability.

Zentyal Server 6.0 is based on Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 LTS and comes with the latest versions of all the integrated software. Besides providing new base distribution, this release focuses on providing improved Microsoft Active Directory interoperability, integrating the latest stable Samba version. It also comes with the Linux 4.15 Kernel, providing support for the most recent hardware.

The new features include RADIUS – that allows access control to wireless networks and securing of critical enterprise networks, and Virtualization Manager, making it possible to run other virtualized machines on top of Zentyal Server. An important effort has also been put into bugfixing and usability improvements, specially in the core, the installer and also in the OpenVPN and Antivirus modules.

New features and improvements include:

• New base distribution: Ubuntu 18.04.1 Long Term Support
• Linux 4.15 kernel with support for most recent hardware
• Samba 4.7
• New RADIUS module
• New Virtualization Manager module

Full list of Zentyal 6.0 features is available at Zentyal Server Features.

Availability
Zentyal Server 6.0 is released under the GPLv2 license. The detailed Zentyal 6.0 release announcement is available at: Zentyal Server 6.0 Release Announcement